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Office Location
Location: 2L
Telephone: 860.545.9360
After Hours: 860.545.9360
Fax: 860.545.9365
Contact Person
Charles L. Castiglione, Surgical Director
E-mail ccastig@ccmckids.org
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The Team functions to coordinate and to provide
multidisciplinary specialty care for children with
congenital defects of the head and neck or acquired defects
secondary to trauma and/or oncology. Examples of these
disorders include: cleft lip, cleft palate, cranial and
facial asymmetry, craniosynostosis, microtia, nasal and jaw
deformities, other oral and facial asymmetry and facial
abnormalities, as well as speech disorders associated with
hypernasality and/or velopharyngeal incompetence. The Team's
newborn outreach program will see the parents and affected
infant in the birthing hospital within 24 hours after birth
for diagnosis, feeding assistance, and family support. We
also provide pre-natal instruction, counseling, and support
to families when it is determined via ultrasound that they
have an infant developing with a cleft lip and/or palate.
Follow up, genetic counseling and specialty care is
coordinated through the Connecticut Children's Medical
Center Craniofacial Team, throughout childhood, while
primary care is maintained in the local community.
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